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Patented July 21, 1925.

UNITED- ST TES 1,546,600 PATENT OFFICE.

WARREN A. MORRIS, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE RICHARDSON COM:

PANY', OF LOCKLAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

CARTON.

Application filed November 2, 1922: Serial No. 598,627.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, WARREN A. Morons, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain.

new and useful Improvements in Cartons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference. being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to cartons as employed with material which is to be poured therefrom in small quantities. Of such a type are soap powder 'or soap chip cartons, salt, and soda cartons, and cartons for many other materials.

It is the object of my invention to so form a carton or container that the user can, by a simple punching out of certain perforations or weakened portions, form of the structure left after the punching, a spout for the container that communicates with the contents therein.

It is also the object of my invention to form such a container without use of extra material and to provide a spout which will be effective in directing the contents of the box where the user desires.

, I am aware of attachments being mounted on cartons which 'may be employed as spouts, but my device is to be shipped flat, and filled and closed or sealed at thefactory, as is any usual carton, thereby pro.

viding for much economy and avoiding the, chang ng of packaglng methods over usualfactory practice.

These various objects I accomplish by that certain construction and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more specifically pointed out and claimed.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the carton entirely closed.

Figure 2 is a perspective view showing the spout in use.

Figure 3 is a plan View of the box blank cut and creased.

Referring first to the blank, which in this case is of a standard soap chip or soap powder package, it will be noted that there arethe large sections 1, 1, to form the wide sides of the box, and the narrow sections 2, 2, to form the narrow sides of the box, with an added glue flap 3.

. It will he noted The bottom end closing flaps comprise two wide flaps 4, 4, and two narrow flaps, 5, 5.

The top end closing flaps comprise the two wide flaps 6, 6, and the one standard top flap 7 The other top flap is cut with a main body portion 8 and two side portions 9, 9, which are curved and cutaway from what would ordinarily be a portion of the wide flaps 6, 6. o

The lines of fold or creases between the special top flap, as indicated at 10, 10, leave a rectangular body 8 and the two wing or side portions 9, 9, having the special curved formation shown.

The two wide flaps 6, 6, are fractured or perforated along the curved lines 11, 11,- which curved lines will lie directly over the curved end of the flap portion 8 when the box is set up.

- In setting up the box, tire various portions are folded to make a rectangular package inthe usual manner, and the flap portion 3 is tucked inside of the end portion 2 and cemented. made in the usual manner with the wide flaps 4 on the outside and the narrow ones folded in, and the assembly cemented.

In closing the top of the box, the wings 9 are bent at right angles to the flap portion 8 and then the flap folded inwardly to rest on the contents of the package with the. wings extending down into the contents. The other narrow top flap is folded in, and the two wide flaps folded over, and the wide flaps cemented together and to the narrow flaps 7 and'8. This results as will be noted The bottom of the box is I in reinforcing the base of the spout formed by part 8.

This leaves a package with the fractured I line 11 of the two wide flaps coinciding, so that the user'can punch these portions out, leaving theflap .portion 8 exposed.

This flap portion 8 1s then pulled out, together with the parts of 6 that have been cemented tothe part 8, as noted, resulting in, a pouring spout, as indicated in Figure-2,

with the the wings 9 serving as the sides of the. spout. Thematerial. of the/ box at the foldor crease line of the flap 18 serves as 'a hinge therefor, so that-it 'can be bent back onto the top of the box when ls'ame is' not in use.

that the ends of the flaps box for shipment, the flap 9 that is united will fold over with the members 1 and 6 so that the other side flap-2 may fold down and be glued to flap 3, making a flat body to the box for shipment. In charging the package, the body will be opened, the bottom end flaps closed, and the goods inserted. In closing the top of the box, the connection of the one flap is first fractured with very slight pressure.

I find this arrangement to be quite simple to manufacture, and easy to put into use, and that it does not appreciably interfere with the factory operations of filling the carton. In cost, it is not enough different from the cost of the usual rectangular carton to be a disadvantage.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I 1. In a carton, the combination with a structure formed from a single blank, of closing tabs folded from said blank, one of said tabs folded in from one of the narrow sides of the carton at the top end thereof, said tab having lateral extensions adapted when the tab is turned out to form the sides of a spout, of which spout the tab forms the base, and the tabs at the wide the wide and narrow sides of a carton, separated flaps to fold in over the carton structure, with the said flaps at one end of the blank being formed with a central flap, having a body with an end and sides bounded by .lines of the narrow side section from which it'extends, and lateral extensions connected to the body of the flap and severed from the blank sections forming the box sides, and with the two flaps extending from the wide side sections formed with broken lines of the same shape as the end of said central flap, when folded in, which will form a line of breakage coincident with the end of the said central flap.

3. In a carton, the combination with a structure formed from a single blank, of closing tabs folded from said blank, one of said tabs folded in from one of the narrow sides of the carton at the top end thereof, said tab having lateral extensions adapted when the tab is turned out to form the sides of a spout, of which spout the tab forms the base, and the tabs at the wide sides formed with fracture lines, whereby they may be punched out to leave the selected tab free for bending away from the top of the box, one of the lateral extensions at least being left with a fracturable engagement with the carton blank, which is broken when the carton is filled.

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